Next month’s furniture market in High Point, N.C., will be paying special attention to patios.

At least three furniture manufacturers, including Stanley Furniture, Hancock & Moore and Wesley Hall, were forced to temporarily suspend some or all operations due to COVID-related disruptions.

In a YouTube address that prefaced the recent International Home Furnishing Representatives Association (HFRA) board meeting, executive director and AVB contributor Ray Allegrezza compared the state of the furniture business to the famed opening lines of Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, due to the positive and adverse forces it faces.

Manufacturing powerhouse Ashley Furniture Industries has fired up a brand-new factory in Pottsville, Pa. The 100,000-square-foot facility began production late last month, bringing the company’s U.S. factory count to 12.

Tempur Sealy has begun to roll out what it describes as the largest product launch in the company’s 140-year history.

Just when the home furnishings supply chain was finding its footing, Mother Nature interceded once again.

Retail sales of home products exploded in January, and mattresses were no exception.

Despite the trials, tribulations and component shortages of 2020, Tempur Sealy International reported record financial performance for the year and thanked its retail partners for much of its success.

That is the million-dollar — or in the case of the home furnishings industry — the $115 billion question.

Serta’s new entry-level iComfort foam mattress can retail for an unprecedented $999 queen and still deliver 60 points of margin.

Furniture manufacturers are passing along a second round of price hikes after imposing average cost increases of 4 percent last fall.

Retail software provider STORIS has compiled a comprehensive look ahead at the furniture industry in 2021.